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What’s playing?

Posted In: Technology — November 13, 2005 @ 10:37 am — Peter

While watching the AVs game last night I decided to hack our website some more and add another fun feature. Lately, we have been listening to music via our server in the front room that is hooked up to our stereo. I found a client/server based system called mpd that allows for console and web-based control. I’ve been smitten with the setup over the past few months since it taps into our 50GB mp3 collection which is stored on the same server.

I thought it would be fun if the current song playing would be displayed somewhere on our website. It was difficult slicing out a new piece of real estate to dedicate to this, so I figured I’d reuse the area we have dedicated to quotes. So, whenever the mpd server is actively playing a track, the name of the artist/album/track will be displayed instead of a quote. Here is what it looks like incase we’re not listening to any music at the moment, doot.

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2 weeks 5 days

Posted In: Technology, Everyday life — November 12, 2005 @ 11:25 am — Peter

Last night I took some time to update a few broken items on our website. A few days ago Chris pointed out that RSS feeds were not working quite right. I simply reloaded the latest Wordpress code and the problem has gone away.

Also, I’ve added code to support annotations above photos in our gallery. So far we’ve only gone through and commented on a few… Here is an example of what it looks like.

Out of curiosity, last night I setup Mono on this server to see how it handles web service projects developed in Visual Studio .NET. After a few minutes of hacking the configuration, I deployed simple hello world service that I was running off my laptop to test with a PHP NuSOAP consumer. When I repointed the WSDL reference of the PHP NuSOAP consumer, it crashed with a SOAP error. I guess Mono has a slight variation in the way it fullfils SOAP requests… I’ll be playing with Mono some more over the weekend and follow up with my thoughts on it.

No concrete plans for today. Weather.com reports 62 degrees Fahrenheit and windy. Sounds like a nice fall day and perhaps a walk in City Park is a good idea. Most of the trees around here are naked and I have lots of leaves to rake up. I’m also hoping to find some time this weekend to get through some more of the book I’m reading.

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